Associations to the word «Forebear»

Wiktionary

FOREBEAR, noun. An ancestor.
FOREBEAR, verb. Obsolete spelling of forbear

Dictionary definition

FOREBEAR, noun. A person from whom you are descended.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky